Youngstown State University juniors Andrew Morgan of Vienna, Ohio, and Jenna Wise of Hubbard, have been selected as Goldwater Scholars for the 2016-17...

Youngstown State student earns prestigious international Rhodes Scholarship
YSU only fourth public university in Ohio to receive the award Ashley E. Orr of Columbiana, Ohio, a senior at Youngstown State University, has been na...

High school students spend week on campus for YSU Summer Honors Institute
Eighty-five gifted high school students will participate in a variety of courses and hands-on activities this week at the 2015 Summer Honors Institute...

New YSU Honors College hosts first recognition ceremony
More than 150 students, faculty and alumni will be honored at Youngstown State University’s first ever Honors College Recognition Ceremony on Fr...

Student HR organization places first
Youngstown State University’s Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) student organization won first place in the Northeast Ohio HR Case Competit...

Sophomore awarded at Harvard National Model UN conference
Youngstown State University sophomore Abigail Kovacs received a verbal recognition award last month while representing the Republic of Kenya in the Ha...

Retired surgeon donates medical artifacts to Melnick Museum
Retired surgeon Dr. Rashid Abdu of Canfield has donated his collection of more than 50 medical artifacts, some dating to the 1730s, to the Rose Melnic...

New webpage highlights YSU Points of Excellence
The STEM College and the Beeghly College of Education are the latest additions to YSU’s new Points of Excellence webpage. The page at http://web.ysu.e...

Planned power outage helped prevent ‘catastrophic’ failure
The planned campus-wide power outage the day after Christmas may have prevented what the head of university facilities says could have been a catastro...

Let it burn!
Susan Clutter, left, assistant professor of Criminal Justice and Forensic Sciences, and Melissa James, undergraduate student and research assistant, p...

15th annual Summer Festival of the Arts, July 13-14
More than 75 artists have been selected to participate in the 15th annual Summer Festival of the Arts, set for July 13 and 14 on and around the Youngs...

Attorney named to YSU Board of Trustees
Ohio Gov. John R. Kasich has appointed James “Ted” Roberts, an attorney and Youngstown State University alumnus, to a nine-year term on the YSU Board ...